Norwood, North Carolina

Norwood population, 2020 to 2024

Norwood added 156 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +6.6%. In the latest year it moved by +55.

Norwood covers 4.64 square miles of land, for 543 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Norwood is less dense than the typical town.

What county Norwood is in

All of Norwood's residents live in Stanly County, which had 67,326 residents in 2024. Norwood holds 3.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Norwood

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Norwood by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 28128. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Norwood is

The Census internal point of Norwood is at 35.232800, -80.110800. Raleigh, the capital, is 91.0 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Albemarle, NC (17,344 people), 9.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Concord, NC, 31.6 miles away.

Daylight in Norwood

At 35.23° N, Norwood gets about 14 h 32 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 47 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 45 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Norwood

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Mount Gilead, 6.1 miles away, with 1,185 people.